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The Owned smart contract implementation for Aurora DAO (AURA), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to acquire contract ownership because the setOwner function is declared as public

Published May 9, 2018

Description

The Owned smart contract implementation for Aurora DAO (AURA), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows attackers to acquire contract ownership because the setOwner function is declared as public. An attacker can then conduct a lockBalances() denial of service attack.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 9, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved May 3, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a